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Hog-Hunting in india This 'N That (continued) S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S • 17 tHe meet. gone away. THE sport of hog-hunting is carried on in much the same manner in all parts of India, except that on the Bombay side the spear is held in a different manner. The Bengal spear, six or seven feet in length, is held overhand, and is jabbed into the pig by a quick stab downward from the elbow, while the Bombay spear, which is from eight to ten feet in length, is held underhand, like a lance, and is driven into the pig more by the impetus of the horse than by any action on the part of the man. In both cases a leaden ferrule is with advantage attached to the butt end of the spear, so as to bring the balance as far from the point as possible. Pig-sticking no longer flourishes on the Bombay side of India as it once did. Old members of the "Guzcrat" and "Deccan" hunts can testify to the balmy days of the sport they have seen when pigs were plentiful around the larger stations, and horses were cheaper than they are now; when the "Deal Table" Hunt or "Tent Club" pitched a camp in the jungle for a week or more, and large fields of sportsmen met together to hunt through the days and drink through the nights, and cheering to the favorite old Bombay song of "The Boar, the Mighty Boar." n tHe run. come to grief. tHe finisH. From Harper's Weekly, May 17, 1873